They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols. (Psalm 78:58) Are You Jealous of Other Athletes’ Abilities? The title of this blog caught my attention. The writer recounted his time as a college freshman baseball player. The first day at the batting cages he met one of his new teammates. […]
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Do You Actually Listen?
13 To answer before listening – that is folly and shame. (Proverbs 18:13) Imagine a young baseball player sheepishly walking in to meet with their coach as he sits in the middle of a 0 for 30 slump at the plate. The coach asks: “what’s going on?”. The player begins: “I just don’t feel I’m seeing […]
The Greatest Comeback Ever!
Matthew 28: 5The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. I recently saw an old video of the ending of a South African Rugby match. It was the 2014 Varsity Cup Final, […]
Better than a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Isaiah 7:14 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give youa sign: The virginwill conceive and give birth to a son, andwill call him Immanuel Robert Merton, a 20th century sociologist, is credited as coining the expression “self-fulfilling prophecy” which is “in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false […]